American Quotes

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

Let's stop this American downward spiral.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.